Virginia native Tori Arthur earned a MFA in Creative Writing from American University in Washington, D.C. in 2006. In 1999, she earned a BS in Media Arts and Design from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Tori has amassed over fifteen years of electronic media, news and creative writing, and communications experience. As a broadcast journalist, Arthur worked for local and national news organizations including CBS affiliate WDBJ 7 in Roanoke, Virginia and CONUS Communications in Washington, DC. She has also worked as a writer and editor and as a strategic communications specialist for General Dynamics, a government contractor in DC. From 2008 to 2011, Arthur was Visiting Assistant Professor of Broadcast Journalism and Public Relations in the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University.
She is currently a PhD student in American Cultural Studies at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio where she is primarily focusing on critical media and film with a secondary focus on ethnic studies. Tori’s research interests include the postcolonial film and theory, the Nigerian film industry (Nollywood), African national cinemas, representations of black and brown people in film and television, and the influence of American television and film on third world cultural productions.
Her prose and poetry has appeared on the Huffington Post and in Mourning Katrina and Words, Beats, Life.
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